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perf report: Fix a memory leak for perf_env on AMD
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The env.pmu_mapping can be leaked when it reads data from a pipe on AMD.
For a pipe data, it reads the header data including pmu_mapping from
PERF_RECORD_HEADER_FEATURE runtime.  But it's already set in:

  perf_session__new()
    __perf_session__new()
      evlist__init_trace_event_sample_raw()
        evlist__has_amd_ibs()
          perf_env__nr_pmu_mappings()

Then it'll overwrite that when it processes the HEADER_FEATURE record.
Here's a report from address sanitizer.

  Direct leak of 2689 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
    #0 0x7fed8f814596 in realloc ../../../../src/libsanitizer/lsan/lsan_interceptors.cpp:98
    #1 0x5595a7d416b1 in strbuf_grow util/strbuf.c:64
    #2 0x5595a7d414ef in strbuf_init util/strbuf.c:25
    #3 0x5595a7d0f4b7 in perf_env__read_pmu_mappings util/env.c:362
    #4 0x5595a7d12ab7 in perf_env__nr_pmu_mappings util/env.c:517
    #5 0x5595a7d89d2f in evlist__has_amd_ibs util/amd-sample-raw.c:315
    #6 0x5595a7d87fb2 in evlist__init_trace_event_sample_raw util/sample-raw.c:23
    #7 0x5595a7d7f893 in __perf_session__new util/session.c:179
    #8 0x5595a7b79572 in perf_session__new util/session.h:115
    #9 0x5595a7b7e9dc in cmd_report builtin-report.c:1603
    #10 0x5595a7c019eb in run_builtin perf.c:351
    #11 0x5595a7c01c92 in handle_internal_command perf.c:404
    #12 0x5595a7c01deb in run_argv perf.c:448
    #13 0x5595a7c02134 in main perf.c:556
    #14 0x7fed85833d67 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58

Let's free the existing pmu_mapping data if any.

Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311000416.817631-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Namhyung Kim committed Mar 24, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -2770,6 +2770,8 @@ static int process_pmu_mappings(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
free(name);
pmu_num--;
}
/* AMD may set it by evlist__has_amd_ibs() from perf_session__new() */
free(ff->ph->env.pmu_mappings);
ff->ph->env.pmu_mappings = strbuf_detach(&sb, NULL);
return 0;

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